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February 14, 2023
IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?
This year, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting on October 12-13 overlapped with the IMF-World Bank annual meeting on October 13-15 in Washington, DC. As of December 1, 2017, Argentina becomes G20 President with the past and future Presidents (Germany and Japan, respectively...
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January 23, 2018
FRDI: Robbing Savings to Pay Corporate Debts
Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 is supposedly the new weapon in the government’s arsenal to ‘solve’ the bad loan crisis. This Bill’s stated objective is to form a Resolution Corporation that would ‘resolve’ a financial institution through means of a merger, amalgamation,...
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December 6, 2017
Monsoon session of the Parliament: An overview
Maju Varghese The Parliament met from July 17 to August 11, 2017. The election of the president and vice-president of India took place during this session. The new vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, presided over the Rajya Sabha on the last day. This session also saw the retirement of a few members, ...
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February 7, 2020
Government wants to continue the system of crony capitalism, which is root of NPAs: Prashant Bhushan
August 10, 2017, New Delhi: “The government, which is arguing against the right to privacy in Aadhaar, is fighting for the privacy of large corporate defaulters,” said eminent lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has raised the issue of the non-performing assets (NPAs) through the two PILs at the Supreme Co...
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